Target Shooting Original Song Full Version:
Sunsetting in the western mountains, the red sunlight flies.
Warriors hit the target to return the battalion to return the battalion to return.
The red flower on the chest reflects the colorful sun.
Cheerful songs fill the sky.
Mi so la mi so.
La so mi do re.
Cheerful singing all over the sky.
Sunsetting in the west, red clouds fly.
Warriors shooting at targets and returning to the camp.
The red flower on the chest reflects the colorful sun.
Cheerful songs fill the sky.
Sunset over the western mountains, the red clouds fly.
Warriors shooting at targets and returning to the camp.
The red flower on the chest reflects the colorful sun.
Cheerful songs fill the sky.
Mi so la mi so.
La so mi do re.
Cheerful singing all over the sky.
Mi so la mi so.
La so mi do re.
Cheerful songs fill the sky.
Mi so la mi so.
La so mi do re.
Cheerful songs fill the sky.
One, two, three, four.
"Returning from Target Shooting" is a military song with lyrics by Niu Baoyuan and music by Wang Yongquan, written in 1960 during his time in the army.
In 1960, the song won the first prize in the National Amateur Song Writing Competition.
Background
In March 1959, Niu Baoyuan, a soldier with only elementary school education who had enlisted in the army from Beizhen County, Liaoning Province, followed his unit to a place called Huanglongwei on the Dalian seashore to engage in live-fire training. One evening, he saw some soldiers wearing a big red flower carrying a gun, holding a target card, happy to return from the range.
So, he wrote down the poem "Sunset red haze, soldiers target camp return, chest red flowers reflecting the colorful haze, crisp gunfire flying all over the sky," which is a "jingle" poem. Later, this poem was published in the "troops literary and artistic creation selection".
Early in 1960, Wang Yongquan, an amateur composer of the army, saw this poem in "Selected Literary and Artistic Compositions of the Troops" and thought that it had the atmosphere of the army's life, so he added four lines of lyrics (i.e., the second paragraph of the song) and changed the original "crisp sound of gunfire" to "pleasant singing" to make it a song. The song was written in the form of the song "Returning from Target Shooting", which became a song lyric.